Associate Professor of Surgery, Case West Res University

General Surgery

William Fallon works in the field of General Surgery. He graduated from University of Massachusetts Medical School. University of Massachusetts Medical School is ranked 49 in research and 12 in primary care medicine He received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". William Fallon is a published doctor as well. He has 67 publications published. The latest was: Effectiveness of a 2-specialty, 2-tiered triage and trauma team activation protocol.

Publications

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• The efficacy of initial hydrocortisone administration at preventing posttraumatic distress in adult trauma patients: a randomized trial.
• Geriatric trauma: top 10 lessons from older patients.
• Immunologic function in the elderly after injury--the neutrophil and innate immunity.
• In harm's way: Moving the older trauma patient toward a better outcome.
• Effects of early nightmares on the development of sleep disturbances in motor vehicle accident victims.
• Autopsy data in the peer review process improves outcomes analysis.
• Geriatric outcomes are improved by a geriatric trauma consultation service.
• Use of the Broselow tape may result in the underresuscitation of children.
• Dollars and sense: attributing value to a level I trauma center in economic terms.
• Fetal evaluation for transport by ultrasound performed by air medical teams: A case series.
• Metastatic tumor-related solid organ injury in blunt trauma: a case report.
• System thinking in a personal context to improve eating behaviors.
• Delayed operative intervention in the management of traumatic descending thoracic aortic rupture.
• Central retinal artery occlusion by proxy: a cause for sudden blindness in an airline passenger.
• Intubated pediatric patients requiring transport: a review of patients, indications, and standards.
• Prehospital tracheal intubating conditions during rapid sequence intubation: rocuronium versus vecuronium.
• Growth hormone attenuates Na(+)-dependent hepatic amino acid transport in endotoxemic rats.
• Alcohol use disorder history moderates the relationship between avoidance coping and posttraumatic stress symptoms.
• The impact of the quantity of skeletal injury on mortality and pulmonary morbidity.
• Gender differences in PTSD symptoms: an exploration of peritraumatic mechanisms.
• PTSD after traumatic injury: an investigation of the impact of injury severity and peritraumatic moderators.
• Effects of early albuterol (salbutamol) administration on the development of posttraumatic stress symptoms.
• Patient trauma outcomes after discontinuation of hospital-based air transport service.
• Injured intoxicated drivers: citation, conviction, referral, and recidivism rates.
• Avoidant coping as a mediator between peritraumatic dissociation and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms.
• Efficacy of 24-hour shifts: prepared or impaired? A prospective study.
• Penetrating esophageal injuries: multicenter study of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
• Trauma history characteristics and subsequent PTSD symptoms in motor vehicle accident victims.
• Trauma in the very elderly: a community-based study of outcomes at trauma and nontrauma centers.
• Using Trauma and Injury Severity Score (TRISS)-based analysis in the development of regional risk adjustment tools to trend quality in a voluntary trauma system: the e...
• Comparison of the laryngeal mask airway versus blind endotracheal intubation in the simulated entrapped patient: a preliminary study.
• Sevoflurane mask anesthesia for urgent tracheostomy in an uncooperative trauma patient with a difficult airway.
• The use of focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) by a prehospital air medical team in the trauma arrest patient.
• Optimizing the management of blunt splenic injury in adults and children.
• Trauma triage: do AAMS transport guidelines do it effectively?
• Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST): results from an international consensus conference.
• Trauma and critical care.
• Effectiveness of a 2-specialty, 2-tiered triage and trauma team activation protocol.
• Surgical lessons learned on the battlefield.
• Pancreatic trauma: a ten-year multi-institutional experience.
• Benchmarking the quality-monitoring process: a comparison of outcomes analysis by trauma and injury severity score (TRISS) methodology with the peer-review process.
• Response after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the trauma patient should determine aeromedical transport to a trauma center.
• Analysis of deaths within 24 hours of injury: cost-benefit implications for organ and tissue donations.
• Resident supervision in the operating room: does this impact on outcome?
• Efficacy of deep venous thrombosis prophylaxis in trauma patients and identification of high-risk groups.
• Post-traumatic empyema.
• The surgical management of intra-abdominal inflammatory conditions during pregnancy.
• Trauma systems, shock, and resuscitation.
• Suppurative mediastinitis as a complication of long-term total parenteral nutrition therapy via subclavian vein.
• Paraduodenal hernia: diagnosis and surgical management.
• Penetrating trauma to the buttock.
• Blunt traumatic rupture of the right hemidiaphragm.
• Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture: a five year experience at William Beaumont Army Medical Center.
• Delayed recognition of carotid artery injury due to blunt trauma.
• Management of stab wounds to the abdomen.
• Bladder rupture associated with fractured pelvis in blunt trauma to the abdomen.
• Injury to the abdominal wall musculature: the full spectrum of traumatic hernia.
• Seizure disorders and trauma.
• A prospective, randomized clinical trial of wound debridement versus conservative wound care in soft-tissue injury from civilian gunshot wounds.
• The role of antibiotic therapy in the prevention of empyema in patients with an isolated chest injury (ISS 9-10): a prospective study.
• Violent brain injuries by gunshot in Duval County, Florida, 1989-1991.
• The present role of colostomy in the management of trauma.
• Objective determination of the optimal red blood cell count in diagnostic peritoneal lavage done for abdominal stab wounds.
• Prophylactic antibiotics for the prevention of infectious complications including empyema following tube thoracostomy for trauma: results of meta-analysis.
• Blunt thoraco-abdominal injury.
• The "Airmedical F.A.S.T." for trauma patients--the initial report of a novel application for sonography.

Schools

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• University of Massachusetts Worcester Campus

• Tripler Army Med Center

• Walter Reed Army Med Center

Doctors Specialties

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• Critical Care Surgery
• General Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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• Cigna
• Medicare MCR
• United Healthcare

Awards

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• Fellow (FACS)

Education

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• Tripler Army Medical Center
• University of Massachusetts Medical School

Hospital

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• Summa Akron City Hospital

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